Sony Exec Falls Asleep Listening To David Cage Talk

Shuhei Yoshida is a busy man. Between running Sony's Worldwide Studios and sharing his hilarious, loveable thoughts on Twitter, the guy's got a lot on his plate. So it's OK for him to be tired every once in a while. And it's OK that he dozed off a bit during this panel with Heavy Rain creator David Cage.

Yeah, because you know so much about what he thinks of himself right? I've known this guy for about 25 years and he's actually a rather humble person and a really nice guy. Sorry if it comes across as a bit blunt, but I can't help feeling frustrated when I repeatedly read comments about his arrogance etc. My 2 cents.

I didn't say anything about him being arrogant or otherwise. But I've read enough interviews with him to know that he takes himself way too seriously. Like I said above, I enjoy his games - I liked Fahrenheit, Heavy Rain was better and I'll get Beyond on day 1. But watching or reading an interview with him, he comes across as somebody who spends way too much time navel-gazing. Especially when he keeps on talking up the emotional power of his games, but then undermines it by delivering some of this generation's worst voice-acting in Heavy Rain, which effectively managed to suck out a good amount of the emotional power that the story might have otherwise been able to muster.

He's kind of like Peter Molyneux - he'd be better off just making good games like he does, instead of talking them up to be something that the finished article can't live up to. The end result being a game where instead of talking about how good it was in its own right, a lot of people end up talking about how far short it fell of what was promised.

It would a tough job especially when these events roll around. Late nights, early mornings, plane trips and panel after panel. Not to mention being chucked in a dim lit room with David Cage talking... I'd fall asleep too.

Story time! I went to an all-girls’ school. My friends and I had that special bond of closeness that apparently comes with synced-up periods and measuring the length of each other’s winter leg hair.
This, obviously, led to a brief era of trying to catch one of the others unawares with the most impressive, most unexpected spank possible. We’re talking sneaking up behind each other in the hallway and laying one down that made the earth shake. If I couldn’t read your palm from the imprint, you weren’t doing a good enough job.